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1 •• i IT is not always that heroic spirit has an °pp*. titnity of displaying itself ; but when it has, and its Possessor has laid down his life in the cause of Ms' Country, the only melancholy consolation which, his friends can receive is to retrace the efforts of hii ° vallantry, and to c l a i m t h at applause and sytn , ' pithy" which th e Nation is ever ready to'pay to the memory of depaited • The late Capt. SHERRIFP, upon many occasions during his long service under Capt. V4NTCOVVRIt and , Lieut. f3ReuGIITUN, in their Voyage of Discovery in the South Seas, evinced that he possessed a large portion of that high and enterpriziug spirit which is the present characteristic of the British Navy: Upon a subsequent occasion lie gave a striking proof: of this, which it is but j ust i ce t o t h e memory o f a. , brave Officer to record, more particularly as its pub lic mention at the present u nent may serve the interests of a widow and orphan; beqeeathed, by his' fall in its service, to the justice and generosity of the Nation. Lieut. SHERRIPP, RS Agent of Transports in the 4% formerly an East Indiaman, was employed ID -- convey the Maroons that had been transported from. Bt. Vincent's to Nova Scotia, from the latter nil genial climate, to the warmer one of Sierra LeOne. This service he executed with great humanity and • BU ,ccess. While h e st ill rema i ne d at Si erra L eone in the 4Sia, a rebellion brOke out in the Colony,whieh .was quelled , chiefly by his, personal gallantry and exertions, as will best appear from the following Minute of Council (COPY.) Sierra Leone, Dec. 24, a. VititAt—Ceerge nn Luillam, Governer—l: Gray, Ist in Conti.' eil—Richard Bright, zd Council. Z. he Gove or and Council next proceeded to consider of M ae ,ac rn knowledgincia to Lieut. limn Shernif, of , his Navy, he services this Government received U p o n min, in his military capacity, daring the late Rebellion, ron .wilich occasion it was unanimously • 4 viselved, the That Lieutenant John Sherrill has manifested hit zeal ,f.Ot the welfare of this Colony, in a voluntary o f of his lif sj alki health, by heading different detachments sent out a g a inst the Rebels, especially that on the ad of 0 &Ault last; 0 l' l, That i n accepting and supporting the character of f. , ident of th e C ourt o f I nquiry, w hi c h , at t h e i nstance !nil desire of this Government, sat for many successive days w n the Rebels that were taken nr surrendered, the Governor 'Pa Council ha ve t o ac k now l e d ge to hi s ainremitted and ps ilen't investi Lied gation, and, in conjunction with his Colleagues, , r• e nants Smith and Tully, judicious adaptation of the o unis hments recommended to be inflicted upon the Pri. the pres en t sa f et y o f the Colony, and the means of xecost -.en with w hich the Governthent was at that fits pro. that in receiving the said and other Prisoners on board Atia for a considerable period of time, and thereby alto. 4". rating this Government trout the risk, anxiety, and charge, securing their persons at the. Government House, as ...ell 'thV detaining the Asia, in compliance with their reqUest, ekpress service, , luhn Sherrilfmaterially' 7 ,ll 4thentxl We hands of the Governor anti Council, and af. plkled them leisure anti security to dein:craw on many points ot great and urgent importance. s t ll, That the . pordic Thanks of this Board, together with ~ . ony of the present Minute, be conunun'cated to Lieut. lierrilf in a Letter from the pen of their Secretary. Bxtradtti from the MinUtes of Council, Jan. z, tSot. (Signed) A. SMITH, Se c .' (COPY.) Pro/To~vu l )itn.„ r, stir, t 011,direacd by Ma Go v ernor and Council to t r a nsm it- to roti theincloscd Mi: , ute, and to testify on their part the high i ns* th ey shall ever retain of y ou r i m p ortant serv i ces outing Lite late Kebellion ; they beg you% to accept of this public' no. catton of their sentiments, and they shall be happy to Bear that yOur eminent services have not passed u nnyttce d b y the Co..rt of Di rezior:. 1 have the Honour to be, Your obedient humble Servant-, (Signed) SMI Ste: cplCii SherrilE • ti do • 1.1, " 1113 return to England :he .received the . r n Of the Court of .Direaors of the Sierraug . Coniputi any, which *ere conveyed 14 the wing Resolon 1 At a pi of DI RE croßs, on the ;tit March, 180 I t T k esoltied, c 11 4 9 .1 the Thanks of this Court be ';nirmunica . tpl the , " 1 ": 41 1 to Lieut. ('din Sherriti, of theltoYal Nitq. of Trail e zert . .sports on board the Asia, fur his aide anwspir.teta. • %Intl ln suppressing the late Insurmaion at Sierra Leone, - The th y't m i st Chairman ha also reqoestdd to cotnntunicate to, te".:"ls of the Admiralty the senSe . .iihicli the Court en ' e lll6 of Leta. Sherriff's scrvkes ott that OCCAS;011. terra Leone Unice, NI aiLli 6, 181 /. (Examinedi ctIA RY M.ICAU LAY, SO. t :I'his Resolution was cotive'yed in the following ,t ter frotri th e i r wort h y an d h ighly respecta b le Otitirtn an tit* , , London, March 9, I flo t. 'vet4e honour of commonicatlng yuu the enclusecl c o 'Tletion of th e co urt o f Diri:zturs n the 'Sierra Leone 5441 1 . 1 ° 4 7, ahel l beg item also to state, th:it I have this nay tvs esse a Letter to the Seeret.try. or the Board AdnliraltYi vigessing the sunse Whic:l 1.11;1-Court We:falls of yo . ur ser. to contbrinity to the I nitritction which you will pct..' "ve o havebeeu given me 14th Court. • I ant, Sit, 1. Sherrill; LSq . Your obalietit humble Semitt. HEJ , I Y THORNTON. ti . it i 3 01+. Y lieetiSary to add that this recommenda 7 ." was unfortunately of no avail to Mr. Stu k , ; t ". It vv4s not till 1605, that he we's tnatie a it"' ll atiticr, and appointed to-the Curieur Con y ' s , e v nt . t hist year to the West Indies with a , and d ° 4ll l ,: v ` lere hu to o s°°" lost his life in a gallant perior rorce, tits sa - -- rk-w rat e eGallia with an Enemy's Sitip• tit very krded • circumstances of which ureic , in the ng fellowi -•ttn; ' • Ms - N a p s /0. slap Curitur, Burluct7l. !; Doctember 5, 1807. • sr n tc 2 4th Nov'. we sailed from Barbadoes on h i: -17" to noPes' of falling in with the Supe . rieure, that,le,. wag to be under our command. On the ad li w e saw a strange Sail standing towards us ;.filte 2sseti alnloit within Altnad gun-shot to leeward. of us, and e several signals, Which were not answered. eher, ut lt t 2 at nOOll we tacked and stood after allthe tu ne f rom our bow gun. At One she b h ,• 41 a shot and h o i sted French co ' sours, at the same could 4 making all sail from tt s. Wh en found she not escape us, she shortened sail. About two I ci eck we were abreast of her, and brought herte voit a • to &ton, which la s t e d a n h our , . w h en our tiller AP" , bow-lines, and braces being unfortunately aw ay , the Curieux became wholly tunnanage-, which the Enemy perceiving, took advantageand. ran us on board on the starboard quarter, 4 7 ° ,sadeavoured t o t h row a vast num b er of men I leo4 ''s. In bravely re p u l s i ng t hi s attempt, at ' the of Our boarders. . Capt. Sur .ntulT amid sent-ratrs were killedatt wounded, and 'the mdit)-- 4Q°44 W4s at the same ut3taitt shot away by an 18 01 WILICLI bUC - 114 A tall tict aUJO, castle. One of our men hove the grappling of the Enemy overboard, and in the attempt received a shot which has occasioned the loss of his arm. She was no sooner clear of us, 'which was about three o'clock, than she made sail close . to the wind, and we., from our crippled state, :could not follow her, with any prove& of _bringing 4er again, to atlion, notwithstanding the most zealous efforts of every man in the Ship to repair our damages. We had the serjeant and a private Marines killed, and 3 Seamen killed, and 14 others'were disabled. , The loss of the enemy must have been very great; her decks were co vered.wi th dead, and the blood run out of her like water when washing deck. She proved to be the British .Tar, of 36 guns, and 200 men, double the force of our little Brig, which was htlt poorly manned; owing to smile of our flier) being away in a Priie. She was but just out of Guadaloupe, and we have heard from an American that she boasted all she wished fOr was to fall in with an English Frigate. It remarkable that the. Commander of her had been an:intimate friend of Capt. SHERRMVS, his name was Le MARE ; he used frequently to mention his name. We buried Capt. SITERRIFF at sea the morning after theietion—in.him we have lost a valuable friend-. he Was a father to all his Ship's Company, and belov ed by every one." PORTUGAL. - OFFICIAL. PAVERS. He4d-Quarters, in Lisbon, Dec. g, 0107. Fresh complaints have reached his ENcelleney the General InChlef,that severalOificers,notwithstanding the General Or ders, have still taken upon themselves to (lemaral to be found in provisions in the houseswhere they lodge; his Excellency is Cxtremely displeased with their disobedience, and hopes that it will not be repeated. Ile calls to the recollection of Officers, that .they ought to consider themselves in Lisbon,, as.well as in all other towns of Portugal, as being in gar. rison, and have no right to ask at their quarters for any thing more than lodging fire, and candles. His Excellency lastly reminds them, that his Majesty the Emperor and King having ordered that the Officers of the 'Army of Portugal shall be treated like those of the Grand Army, they will receive extraordinary pay, which' shall be pundually paid to them, and which will fully enable them to defray the expettee of their board. By Or.ter of his Excellency the General in Chief, Till EBA UO, Chief of the Staff. FROCLAMATIO. I, Doctor loste Teixeita Dc Souza, Knight 'of the Order of Christ, of his Royal Highness's Privy Council, lodge of the Supreme Tribunal, perforating the functions of Chief justice of the Superior Court of Law in this Chief Magistrate and Commissioner, &c. &c. &c.' make known, that by' the Aulic Tribunal, an Order has been' trans. mated to me, which is of the following tonour I, Don John, by the Grace of God Prince Regent. of Portugal, and of the Algarvcs on this side and beyond the Seas, in Afrida, &c. &c. &c. make known unto you, Chief Ma gistrate of the distriel of Oporto, that as it is my royal Inten tion that.the wise laws which prohibit the use of tire-arms, and all other arms mentioned in the said laws, be fully and . strielly observed, it is my pleasure that you do warn the ofnnderS,• that not only the punishments already waded by them shall be rigidly inllided, but also those which the hoard of the Aulic Tribunal shall deem best calculated to .check the use of all arms, even those being included its this prohibition which were used by virtue of a licence from the aforesaid Board or the Office of the Secretary of State, the power of granting which is suspended until further orders, .10SZli TE.IXEIRA DE SOUZA. (Countersigned) CRISP. CASTANO DA COATA. Oporto, Dec. ti, 1807. 771E,PUNER4L OF COL. FULL.4IITON. • Isieworth, t 9. ,leldoM has it fallen to our lot to witness t more impressive scene than that which closed the earth ly• career of this illustrious theraCter. it 'was 'a scene which required to be personally observed, in. order to be telt—a was • a scene equally cal-, .eolated to appal the guilty 'lmrt, and ,gratity the feelings .of justice and humanity. Yesterday, about' two otelOck,shis numerous: triendss began .to AB:3CM— ble, but it.was not till four that it was -possible to arrange the precession of those who thronged to pay the lager tribute of res . ped. The honour ed remains were drawn in a hearse and six, pre ceded by numerous horsemen, and followed by six Mourning coaches and four, .with about t.!5 private carriages, were intended to follow, as a mirk of resPeCt from those friends It' personal attend awe was prevented by iediiposition or impossibility, were, hi a great measure, tilled by those who could not be accommodated in the' proper carriages pro-. video on the occasion. Each side of the road from WortOn Was crowded with ohservers„ ncir was there. •the ecitiunonest among them, in whose countenance We did not - discover au emotion that sympathized in the passing - scone. Well might dievinco regret, for dl i):0 lost a friend. The muffled bell, which anuonuced the solemn scene to the inhabitants, form-' eel • a sad ani Ntrilsiil contrast to the joyous peal which always greeted bis return after any teinporary absence. On the 'entrance of the pr,ecession into the Church; the Dead March in Saul, performed on the organ, well accorded with the sad occasion , and well a.similated with the universal feelingr-till at length the grave closed on all that was once manly, digni fied,-. and independent ; all that ar r as once pure, be nevolent, and just ; all that once glowed - with the love of God and Man.—Eheu! flehilis occidit."' • The remains of the late Marquis of Tttommin . were deposited yesterday in the family vault at Tuplow. The funeral was attended - by a .consider able number of the friends of the deceased. , Siecnt.ATioN.—Of all the changes that have taken place in the value of foreign articles since the' shutting up of the ports, perhaps the following faCt may n 4 t. be the least conspicuous instance :—A home of the first respectability in London, a short tiros: ago ; purchased 97 pounds of opium, at the rate of 285. per pound ; in the course of two months after wards, the whole was re-sold at an average of six .guineas per pound, producing the sum of 58t31. 17i. being considerably more than five times the prime coot. r"./111„ Li LAIIVi .LY 1. SOUSE OF PEERSI FRIDAY, Pen. 19. in an Appeal from the Court (t: Session . in Scot hind, "Wilkie v. Johnston and others," Mr. ADANI and Mr. PARKE were heard for the Appellant. On the motion of the Loan CHANcELLoa - the judgment was atfirmed, with 801. costs. The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time, and paned. AMERICAN INTERCOURSE RILL. Mr. Witawrog and several other Members Of 'the House of Commons bro'nglit up the,American In tercourse iil, which, on the motion of Earl BA- , THusisr, was read a first time. 4 Shortly afterwards Lord Aucts.CAttp, Cin coming into the House, asked what day it was intended to read the Bill a second time ? Earl BATIIURST replied, Tuesday, if convenient. Lord AUCKLAN6 said he did not ask the question with any view of opposing the Bill ;—quite the contrary. OFFICES IN REVERSION RILL. The Earl of LAUDERDALE was desirous of post potitng his intended motion for the second rending of this Bill, till Friday.—The Order for summoning their Lordships for Monday was therefore di.- charged, and fixed for Friday. Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMAIONS. FRIDAY, PER. 19. A new Writ was ordered for the Election of a Member for Boronghbridge, in the room of Mr. H. DAWKINS, whO had accepted the Office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. A Message from the Lords notified their Lord ship,' assent to the Exchequer Bills Bill. Colonel St, tsuor presented a Petition from cer tain Journeymen Cotton Weivers of Lancashire, praying the House to fix the prices of labour in their trade,— , Ordered to lie on the table. On the motion of Mr. FosTE4I it was ordered, that the House should, on .Monday, resolve itself into a Committee on the Aas relating to the Ware housing of Goods in Ireland, with a view to intro duce the Regulations now in. force in England into that Country. He gave notice-that he would, on Monday, move for leave to bring in a Bill to ex.: tend the Provisions of the Orders of Council Bill to Ireland. • Sir C. POLE moved, that there be laid before the House a Copy of the Memorial presented by Dodlor Flicks, late Surgeon of .the Ville de Paris, to'the Trustees of. the Naval Asylum, praying to be ap pointed Surgeon to that Institution; and a Copy Of a Letter from Dr. Kiel to the same. Gentlemen, in closing a Curcificate from the Transport Office. After some explanation from Mr. Rosa, who de fended the condo& of the Trustees in the disposal of the appointment, the Papers %t ere ordered; also, on the motion of Mr. ROSE ; the data of the nomt-, nation of the person appointed Surgeon to that'ln stitution. A Person from the India House presented Copies of, the last Letter of• Lord Cornwallis to the Court of bireelors, subsequent to his last arrival in India. On the motion of C,Olonel Wool) it was ordered, that there be laid before the House Copies of all In struClions transmitted by the Government in this Country to any Officers in the Mediterranean, re speCting :the Expeditions .to Egipt . and the .Darda. miles, and particularly respetiug the• amount of force to be employed in these Expeditions. COLL) BATH FIELDS. Mr. Sinai:MAN held in his hand a Petition similar to that which be had 'yesterday withdrawn, in de ference to what seemed to be the sense of the Hou;e. Yet though he had given .way he could not help thinking that there was no sufficient reason for re fusing to receive the Petition.. The doors of Podia meat ought to be thrown open as wide as possible, for the reception of the Petitions of the Subjed re presenting his grievances, and if a Petition was to be rejetted Merely because at the moment of 'pre senting it the Petitioners were not in the precise sitoation in which they described themselves to be, merely because they did • not designate themselves properly, that designation being wholly immaterial to the stabjeci of their Petition, it would give rather an unfavourable impression as to the disposition which it. was proper that Parliament should be known to have to atteod•to all just complaints, The Peti tioners were, in part, • Grand Jurors of the County of Middlesex on the day on which the Petition was signed, the ad of. November last, but hn that day they ceased to be so. The present Petition was from the Foreman of that Grand Jury, Mr. Stephens, in his iodividual . capacity. He WiSllthl to knotv, irowever, whether he may nor, this day, again offer to the sense of the Bouse the Petition which he had withdrawn yesterday. The SPEARnit r recommended to the Hon. Mem ber to acquiesce in the sense of the House expressed yesterday, as to the impropriety of admitting that Petition. Mr: SIIIMIDAN submitted, but be declared he would never again acquiesce in what hu felt to be wrong (a /angh).—Mr. SHERIDAN then presented the Petition of Alexander Stephens; Esq. stating, in nearly the same words as the Petition the substance of which we gave in our Report ef• yesterday, the abuses discovered by the visit of Mr. Stephens, and other MeMbers of the late Grand Jury of the Coun ty of Middlesex, in their visit to Coldbath-tields Prison. The most, striking of these grieVancei was, the deficiency of the weights used for measuring the provisions, by means of which -the Prisoners were defrauded of one eighth of their proper allowance..-- Mr. SBERIDAN, in moving that the Petition should lie on the table, felt it unnecessary to recortimend it to that attention which he was sure his Majesty's Minister's Would be disposed voluntarily to pay to it. But he begged more particularly to recall to the re colleaion of those Gentlemen the Report of the Committee of the Houk of Commons; in the - year 1800. The fads and 'snggestiOnS contained in that Report were yerunapplied in . the way - of retbrrna tkm or relief. The CHANCELI.OII ofthe EXCJIMUER contended, that the frouse could not with propriety have re ceived the Petition of last night, on account of the Petitioners presenting theme elves under a designa tion which did•not properly belong to them. if the House were once to admit the principle of Peti• miners approecntng mew on..m. eltly 1.1411Vr eualamj 'than that to ,which they were - striOlY and proper'y entitled, Waa impossible to say what abusbs May follow. Havine• stated thus much on the point of farm, ha woulenow relate the House what bad passed between him and the . Gentlethan who had represented 'to him the matter contained in the Petition ettered to the consideration of the House', He told that Gentlemae, that if he would give hitii ihe faas, in an. official form, he Would lay Ahem fore the Secretary of State for the Home Depart , . ment, with the strongest recommendation which be Could give, though he was sure no recommendation would be required to.call thp attention of that Noble Person to a case of such a nature, coming in a pro- 7 per authenticated and tangible shape. The com nmnication was,' in fa6t, made to his Noble Friend but it came in an unbfficial form, marked :frivate, and beconld 'net. feel himself warranted in taking any public step upon it, not holding himself at libel ty to mention the name, or to designate the sonrce from which he had derived his information. He saw no necessity in presenting this Petition, unless it were with a view to iusinbate that . his Majestfs Ministers were inclined to negleet what they were in faa per fe6ily disposed to do,. if they were Supplied with proper materials to Proceed upon. Mr, Secretary CANNING stated, that he also had had a Letter upon this subjefl, which he had tristis.. mitted tO his Noble Friend ) the Secretary for the Home Department,' Mr. SHEAtIAN wished to know the distinOion 'taken in "this case between an official':and unofficial foem or\comnuinieation. The individuals' concei n ed could Make the communication, as it .appeared from all that had bee.n said, only as private persons. . The CEIANCEVLOA of the Excneiaunit said, that when a commo.nication Was marked 'private, no dis closure could with - propriety be made of its ctintents, nor of the name of author, nor could it ally way be •used as.a public document. • Mr. SUERIDAN said there must have been some mistake on this head, as such privacy could never have been intended by those who put themselves sb publicly tbrward, in this and in other placei, to cer met the grievance. %, Mr.°Mat.ttsit said a feik , words in Vindication of Mr. Maiuwaring, who had, in conformity with . his duty, referred this matter to the Magistrates. l'he Petition -,v2; ordered to lie oitlie table. IRISH hll LITIA. . Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose to move for several Accounts tending to show the hardships suffered by the People of Ireland under the late Ad for a:low ing the Militia of Ireland to volunteer into the Line, and for filling utethe vacancies thus creeted in the, Militia. There were many contradi&ory clauses in these A&s, One clause limited the. bounty to tour guineas ; and another allowed 14, :15, and - 16 gui neas, to be given to substitutes, though between a volunteer and a substitute there was no differerence whatsoever. The hardship to which he wished par ticularly to call the attention of the House was, that while an accruable tax was imposed to create a fund for raising sabstituteS, many parishes from which that tax had beet:et:4loll:d had been afterwards itebjeaed to the ballot, and obliged to furnish personal service. The Hon. Baronet commented on the impropriety of taxing the tenant instead of the landlord, and au the injustice of absentee ..exemptlons. The lists used to regulate the quotas ,of parishes Were, itt many places, those made out is 1793 and flea, and were consequently inaccurate and unfeir. He thought „where money had been collee 4 :ted and the - ballot enforced, at least the .money ought to he ree funded. He moved first, that there be laid before the House Copies of all Letters from the Lord Lieu tenant and Council . of Ireland, tinier the 47th Geo. dire&ing tali eaising of men, either by enroll ment or by ballot, to complete the Militia. Sir ARTHUR •WELLESLEY staid, that as it was not his ,intention- to oppose the .production of ties Papc'es the Right Hon. Baronet had moved far,. he should not now have trembled the HOose with, any Observations, if it had not been'for,wiiat had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet. respeaing the manner in which the Ad for raising the Militia iu Ireland had been carried itito extecutiee, He did not mean to enter at present into any diicussion► upon the provisions of the Alt of last Session ; and he thought it would have been more prOper, and more consistent with Parliamentary usage, if the Right Hon, Baronet had stated his objediotia to the Militia till when it was In its progress through that House, and when those objeaions would have re ceived all the ettentioe which was due to them, in stead of coining in a subsequent year ; and objeding to the Clauses of the A 3, as unjust and contradiChe ey. With respell to the manner in which the Aet had been carried into execution, and the :Militia • raised, the Noble Duke at the head of the Govern.; Men: .in Ireland had exercised the powers vested ta him by the Act of Parliament to attain objeea of that Mit, in the manner the most agreeable to the feelings of the people: Undoubtedly that was his wish ,upon the subject, because ha.knew that. a Mi litia could not be etfedually raised in. Ireland without tins hearty co-operation of. the Gentlemen, of that Country; and ho had flattered himself that the mode pursued had met with general - aporobation, as no representations had been made to him to the Contrary. The Lord Lieutenant was enabled, by the ,A6t et last year, tecall upon the differvot Ceeuties. to raise the necessary number of`' men; eitheleby ballot or by Volunteers. If the men were to be raised by ballot, then he balloting was to proceed accordiug to the forms.direeled ill the Militia Acts; if by Volunteers, they were to be raised in the Mode . prescribed for • ILA purpose. Another mode Of proceeding which had been adopted was, to enable the Governors .and Deptity Governors of Couotiee to make an allotment of the mete to he raised in thedifferent distrida, giving the eiewer to the districts to raise a sufficient sum to pay ler sute stitutee. La if the money raised was • not ens ugh to procure the utenber of men reqeired, then it came necessary to have recourse to the ballot. In deed it, would have been impossible to have taised the number of men required by the MI, whieb wee' gOon men, in the space of tour tneariths, without having recourse to the bellot. The Right Nee. Barenet,seerned to thitik there Wes an absurdite - e the Acte With resped to diffeeelt bowies . wh4 ti were to be given. The bounty which the Ate scribed to Volunteers was four guinease but it the Militia could not be raised be Yohintcera, in the manner that rnet . r. were recruited-for the Line, and i t b e c a m e necessary f o r the .4; •') ...sette e s to raise tze.oney I 1